Live and Laugh

….I’m a good writer.

Wasn’t selected to give it, so I figured I’d post it on tumblr :)

It’s the end of the world.  
As everything that we used to know crumbles around us, familiar foes, friends, and family blend into the background, and it feels as though we’re leaving a life behind, we can say but one thing.
It’s the end of the world.
As we slowly empty our house of our belongings, we say goodbye to people we’ve known for our whole lives, and we get ready to leave, we have to acknowledge.
It’s the end of the world.
As we look back at our past, we wave hello to the little toddler who just learned to walk, the small child who learned to ride a bike, the confused middle schooler who had just gone to their first dance, and the high schooler who stood in front of Leland just a few years ago, we suddenly realize
It’s the end of our world.
And that’s scary.

It’s funny, over these last four years, it’s felt as though the world was going to end so many times I couldn’t count it on one hand.  We had three bomb threats, our administrators kept changing, and according to “experts” across the world, in the four years that we’ve been in high school, the world was supposed to have ended three times.  And guess what? We’re still here.

Today marks the end of the world.  A world.  A world that we’ve become so accustomed to that leaving it behind feels stranger than when they leave on the lights at dances.  This world is filled with memories and moments, some of which we’d like to relive, others which we would love to forget.  But its end opens us into a brand new beginning.  As we head off all over the world, from Berkeley, De Anza, and Cal Poly to Purdue, Harvard, even as far as Germany, it’s a little nerve-wracking to be leaving it all behind.  But who are we if not the pioneers?

We came in as freshman and beat the seniors in the homecoming skit.
We brought Relay for Life to campus.
Our football team, water polo team, cross country team… you name it.. destroyed the competition.
Our robotics club got to nationals every year and made us proud
Our speech and debate team was the first in the nation to break 1,000 points
and hey, we joined Leland BEFORE it was in the news!

Today I graduate.  And I’m glad to say that, as I do so, I look behind me and I see future football stars, international diplomats, soon-to-be-nationally-acclaimed authors, and engineers that are going to shape the future.  Amongst us stands the next NFL Quarterback, the next Facebook CEO, and maybe even the next President of the United States, so what have we to be afraid of?

Sure, our world is ending.  There are things we never want to let go of, people we don’t want to leave behind, but keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world.  It’s the beginning of a new life.  But, as we enter our upcoming adventure, I can only hope that we remember our beginnings.  The years that we struggled together , the times that we snuck to our cars at brunch and hoped we didn’t get caught and hear that “hola mijo” behind us, the times when we stayed up until 3 am finishing that paper which ultimately got us an A.  We are Chargers.  We came in to the world of high school together, and we’re about to depart it the same way.

So yeah, it’s scary to leave this world behind.  But we’re one of the greatest classes this school has ever seen.  And when we enter the world that awaits us tomorrow, we do so with great pride and great accomplishments behind us.  So to my fellow graduates I say good job, and good luck.  The world awaits us.

That is, unless it ends on December 21st.

Thank you. 

Nope.

I’m pretty sure it’s one person just asking a bunch of question. 

Side note, if you want to talk to me, there are better ways than tumblr 

I already answered this! haha if you want to know, ask me personally.

Well thanks! haha :)

Speech and Debate

Good luck with what?

The State tournament for Speech and Debate.

Strangely, only a couple of weeks.